OPINION COLUMNS

The start of a new year is often cause for reflection on the previous one, even here at the Messenger. Over the last few issues we’ve shared stories and photos that made the biggest impact on us, and while it’s fun to discuss and debate these things among ourselves, I find it more interesting to know what stories garnered the most reader attention.

Kristen Tribe

Obviously, it’s impossible to track what is read in the print version, but a benefit of dispersing news digitally is that you know exactly how many times an article was read or at least how many times it was opened. These numbers are tracked as “page views.”

Below are the most-read news stories online in 2012. These also ran in the print version of the paper, but again, we have no way of tracking how many times individual stories are read in that format.

These are the people, places and issues that our digital readers wanted to know more about.

2012 MOST READ NEWS STORIES ONLINE

1) Tragedy by the tracks: Community mourns loss of Marcus Silletti, July 11 (3,813 page views)

Whether you read the digital Messenger, pick up a copy from the newsstand or pull it from your mailbox twice a week, we thank you for reading, and we look forward to serving you and sharing your stories in 2013.

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